Shelf elevating device for cooking or broiling ovens



Aug. 30, 1949. M. G. KLEMME SHELF ELEVATING DEVICE FOR COOKING OR BROILING OVENS 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Aug. e, 1945 /m/EA/roe:

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SHELF ELEVATING DEVICE FOR COOKING OR BROILING oVENs Filed Aug. 6, 1945 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 www l f//S @Tran 3 screw 28 is rotated by means of a handle 3| having a iflatsided stem 32 which is inserted in a hole 33 provided therefor in the front wall of the broiler compartment 2 and engaged with the ilat sided socket 30 in the head 28 of said screw.

Each of the slide bars i has an arcuate notch 34 in its lower edge near its rear end; and a locking lever 35 is secured by a horizontal pivot 38 to each side plate Il near the front end thereof and below the slideway i2 therein. The lever 35 has a short upper arm that extends through an opening 31 in the bottom of the slideway I2 and bears against the lower edge of the slide bar I0 therein, the longer, heavier lower arm of said lever serving to hold the upper arm thereof in engagement with said lower edge of said slide bar. By this arrangement, when the broiler pan supporting plate 1 is drawn outwradly through the front opening 3 of the oven or broiler compartment to permit access to be had to the broiler pan 6, the locking levers 35 swing upwardly into the notches 34 in the lower edges of the slide bars i0. In this position of the levers 35, the lower ends thereof abut against stop pins 38 on the side plates Il, thereby preventing further outward sliding movement of the slide bars I0 through the opening 3. y

By the arrangement described, the horizontal broiler pan supporting plate 1 may be quickly and easily raised and lowered in the broiler compartment 2 to locate the broiler pan 3 at any desired level below the burner merely by'insertlng the stem 32 of the Y operating handle 3| through the hole 33 in the front of the stove into engagement with the socket 30 in the head 29 of the operating screw and then turning the handle to rotate the screw in the fixed block or nut 2l.

When the screw 28 is rotated in a direction that will impart rearward axial movement thereto, a rearward end thrust is transmitted through the arm 26 and cross rod 20 to the slidably supported free front ends of the links Il, thereby causing these links and the links I3 associated therewith to swing upwardly and raise the broiler pan 6 in the compartment 2. When the handle 3| is operated to impart a forward axial movement to the screw 28, the rearward end thrust on the free ends of the links Il is relieved, thereby permitting the cross links and the parts supported thereby to descend by gravity a distance determined by the axial position of the screw 28. Thus, the broiler pan 6 may be located at any desired level in the broiler compartment without removing and replacing said pan and without scorching or burning the hands or spillage of grease.

The broiler pan 6 may be withdrawn from the compartment 2 for inspection or treatment of the food being cooked in all positions of adjustment of the pairs of crossed broiler pan supporting links i3 and il. The broiler pan 6, when withdrawn from the compartment, may be lifted out of its supporting plate 1. Complete disengagement of the broiler pan supporting plate 'l from its supporting slideways Il is prevented by the engagement of the levers 35 with the notches 34 in the slide bars I0. The hole 33 for the stem 4 oi' the operating handle 8| is concealed by the door l in the closed position thereof. 'I'he entire pan supporting mechanism is adapted for mounting in the stove as a complete preassembled unit.

Obviously, the hereinbefore described broiler pan supporting device admits of considerable modication without departing from the invention. Therefore, I do not wish to be limited to the precise arrangements shown and described.

What I claim is:

In a stove having a drawerless compartment containing a horizontal access opening, a top burner and a tray beneath said burner, the com-y bination of means permanently located entirely in said compartment for raising and lowering said tray therein relative to said burner without moving said tray forward or backward in said compartment, said means comprising two pairs of crossed reversely inclined links extending from the front portion of said compartment to the rear portion thereof, the links of each pair being pivotally connected at their point of crossing for relative vertical swinging movement about such pivot point, a horizontal pivotal support for the rear lower end of one of the links of each pair, the lower front end of the other of said links of each pair being endwise slidable in said compartment, means cooperating with said lower ends of said other links for imparting such endwise sliding movement thereto, side plates pivotally" supported on the upper ends of both pairs of links for vertical movement therewith, said side plates having longitudinal slideways therein, a supporting plate for said tray supported in said slideways for sliding movement relative to said links into and out of said compartment through the horizontal access opening therein in all positions of such vertical movement, and releasable means for limiting the outwardly sliding movement of said plate.

MAURICE G. EEMME.

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